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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador following the arrest of former Vice President Jorge Glas. The arrest occurred on Friday evening at the Mexican embassy in Quito, where Glas had sought political asylum in December. Despite Mexico granting asylum earlier that day, Ecuadorian police forcibly entered the embassy to make the arrest, prompting Obrador to announce the suspension of ties with Ecuador.
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00:00 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared the suspension of diplomatic relations
00:07 with Ecuador following the arrest of former Vice President Jorge Glas.
00:12 The arrest occurred on Friday evening at the Mexican embassy in Quito, where Glas had sought
00:17 political asylum in December.
00:19 Despite Mexico granting asylum earlier that day, Ecuadorian police forcibly entered the
00:24 embassy to make the arrest, prompting Obrador to announce the suspension of ties with Ecuador.
00:30 The Ecuadorian president's office said in a statement it had arrested Glas, who was
00:34 vice president under the leftist government of Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017.
00:41 There was a heavy military presence at the magistrate's court in the Andean capital,
00:45 where the former vice president was taken.
00:48 The arrest caps a week of escalating tensions between Mexico and Ecuador, which on Thursday
00:52 declared Mexico's ambassador in Quito persona non grata, citing unfortunate comments from
00:58 the leftist president López Obrador.
01:01 Ecuador contends that Mexico's asylum offer was illegal.
01:04 In a statement, Ecuador's presidency accused Mexico of having abused the immunities and
01:09 privileges granted to the diplomatic mission that housed the former vice president and
01:14 granting diplomatic asylum contrary to the conventional legal framework.
01:19 López Obrador directed Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena to suspend diplomatic relations
01:24 with Ecuador, condemning the arrest as authoritarian and a breach of international law and Mexican
01:30 sovereignty.
01:31 Barcena promptly announced the immediate suspension of diplomatic ties with Ecuador.
01:36 Ecuadorian authorities had requested permission from Mexico to enter the embassy and apprehend
01:39 Glas, who had been convicted in 2017 for accepting bribes from the Brazilian construction company
01:45 or the BRIC in exchange for government contracts.
01:48 Glas, facing a preventive arrest warrant in another corruption case, alleges persecution
01:53 based on his political ties, a claim Ecuador's government refutes.
01:57 Tensions escalated between Ecuador and Mexico after President López Obrador's remarks
02:01 on Ecuador's turbulent elections last year, marked by the assassination of a presidential
02:06 candidate.
02:07 President Daniel Nobor, who assumed office late last year, grappled with a surge in drug-related
02:12 violence, prompting him to declare a nationwide state of emergency earlier this year, a measure
02:17 he extended last month.
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